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Before assembling, measure your receiver, battery and other equipment, then decide on the location of the elevator and rudder servos.

Both pushrods are located on the starboard (right) side of the fuselage. The space on the other side will be taken by the wires from the wing servos.

We recommend using a ball joint for the rudder servo, which allows to place the rudder and elevator pushrods above one another, as shown in the picture.

Sand the inside of the pod in the area, where the servo tray will be installed. Mix epoxy with your favorite filler (microballoons, chopped fibers, colloidal silica, etc.) and apply it liberally to the servo tray rails.

Insert the servo tray/rails assembly with installed servos into the pod. The rails should be shaped so that the bottoms of the servos (e.g., JR DS368) touch the bottom of the fuselage and no deformation of the fuselage cross-section occurs. If needed, apply extra epoxy over the rails/fuselage joint.

Remove the excess of the epoxy from the inside of the pod with a cotton swab or paper towel. The outside of the fuselage may be cleaned with alcohol or gasoline before the epoxy is cured.

The servo tray is mounted on its rails with 4 supplied screws. The receiver and the battery should be wrapped in protective foam before installing.

After finishing assembly of the pod, glue the tail boom to it with epoxy, ensuring that the horizontal stabilizer is parallel to the wing. The glueing surfaces are pre-sanded for better adhesion.

If there is excessive gap between the pod and the boom, wind some thin thread over the end of the pod.

New color series Carboline

To select a coloring kindly requested type of coloring and color characteristic elements specified in the letter. Just copy the text to the right of the desired pictures and you select an item from our color palette.

Wing

Two piece wing - colored , painted in the mould. In the wing of the Sprite used the original VM construction with solid flap filling.

Ailerons and flaps are very light and rigid, thanks to the original CF tubing spar design. This design moves the center of rigidity and C.G. of the control surface forward, which eliminates flatter even at the highest flight speed.

The picture on the left shows the structure of the wing:

Herex core of the composite sandwich ;

Inner layers of thin glass composite of ±45 degree layup;

Rear wall from balsa plywood covered with glass fabric ;

Strip of the hinge material ;

Styrofoam core of the flap (aileron) wall;

Carbon braid;

Herex core of the composite sandwich ;

Flap core - Rohacell ;

Outer layers material.

Thewing structure is tied together with special shape nut, which is glued through the whole thickness of the wing. Such design better spreads shock loads of hard landings ;

The carbon spar are made on the technology prepreg in the autoclave. The I-cross section wing joiner are also prepared from hight-strength carbon.

Ailerons and flaps have shields closing the slots and are completely ready to installation of servos. The nuts of the brackets of flaps and ailerons are reliably glued in. The fairings of the control rods of flaps and ailerons are moulded together with the wing.

Fuselage

Sprite comes with pre-assembled fuselage. The pod is glued with the tail boom. Ballast tube is glued in the tail boom and in the pod connecting them. The tow hook is already glued in. The push rods of the rudder and the elevator are glued in the fuselage. The original carbon TAILPLANE MOUNT is glued on the tail boom. The control bracket of the rotatable stabilizer is fastened to the push rod.

The front part of the nose is radio transparent made out of kevlar and high modulus fiberglass. You can place an antenna of2,4 GHz receiver inside the nose (to the end of the canopy).

Thefuselage is attached to the bottom of the wing with 4 screws to facilitate the assembly—you don’t need to turn the plane over, after you plug the wing servo connectors.

Tow hook

TheAdjustable Tow Hook allows for launch optimization for any weather or C.G. location in the recommended range.

Ballast

BALLAST TUBE is glued in the tail boom and in the pod connecting them. It has the internal diameter of 18mm in the tail section and of 22mm in the nose for the arrangement of maximal heavy ballast (up to 750 gr).

Canopy

For the competition, which allowed the use of additional types of braking devices "skeg" thought the ability to install the special parts Removable "skeg" (see "Landing sceg intallation.pdf").

Bynumerous requests, we made Maxa’s tail of classical X-shape design.

Wemanaged to overcome inherent drawbacks of this design and the resulting aerodynamic gains became apparent.

Vertical stabilizer

Thetall and stiff vertical stabilizer gives Sprite good yaw stability and control even at low flight speeds. The horizontal stabilizer doesn’t shadow the rudder, which improves its efficiency.

Sprite's vertical stabilizer has incredible rigidity through the use of structural foam core of Rohacell.

The rudder is very easy to remove. It is inserted into the slit of the special rudder block on fuselage and fixed with duct tape. Thanks to this it is possible to remove the rudder during transportation. You can also buy additional electric fuselage and use the wing and ruder with the both fuselages.

Horizontal stabilizer

Wehave beefed up the horizontal stabilizer’s pivot, which resulted in substantial stiffness increase of the whole control system.

Sprite - is a new generation of 2-meter gliders from Vladimir's Model.

This model is made for experienced pilots, who can fully appreciate its unique aerodynamic characteristics calculated by Dr. Drela. Our original design delivers incredible strength with minimal weight.

Sprite is very easy to accelerate, it has an excellent penetration ability and does not lose speed in a turn.

Sprite is available in two versions of the wing construction:

Sprite HOT (wing has one kink in the middle);

Sprite Thermal (wing has three inflection on the front view);

For each wing offers a choice of three types of external cladding materials:

Sprite HOT - model has a V-shaped wing, consisting of two consoles. Angle V is 4 degrees (2 degrees on the side). The model is designed for fast flight in dynamic flux, or for those who like to drive electric version of the model. For a quick flight recommended carbon (heavier) version, and for flights to the highlands is the ballast weight to 750 grams, which increases the wing loading of 20.5 grams per dm².

Sprite Thermal

Sprite Thermal - has a multi-sectional wing, significantly improves the quality of soaring glider. Right and left wing have an additional 5 degree bend. Thanks to the triple V-wing corner Sprite Thermal is extremely stable and forgiving on the long-range management. At the same time, the model is extremely sensitive to the flow and mixing of perfect circles with the rudder.

Different sets of ballast available for the model (for different weather conditions from 156gr to 750gr).